New York City Country Festival FarmBorough Has Been Canceled After Only One Year

It was backed by the same group that throws Governors Ball

Farmborough, New York City’s first major country festival, has been canceled after only one year. Founders Entertainment, the same company behind the annual Governors Ball festival that’s also held on the city’s Randall’s Island, broke the news on Farmborough’s now-empty website:

No specific reason was given for the cancellation, but Founders Entertainment has been facing some trouble recently. AEG Live, the company behind Coachella, is attempting to throw a music festival of their own in New York City as well, tentatively called Panorama. Founders has been pushing back, arguing that the market for festivals isn’t big enough to support two massive ones back-to-back, and that the better-funded AEG Live festival will likely signal the end of Governors Ball.

Read Stereogum’s extensive analysis of the current New York festival situation here, and revisit SPIN’s 2015 feature about Founders’ seemingly unsuccessful “gambit” to bring country to the Big Apple in the first place.